Telephone Pictionary: A Rose by Any Other Chain (done!)

[Telephone Cat]

What's in a chain? That which we call a rose
By any other chain would--
Wait. What the hell did you do?
Is that Ronald McDonald with a lobster bib?

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Hello again, and welcome to another showing of Telephone Pictionary! This is my chance to completely destroy any bardly credibility I had earned during Rhyme & Reason, and YOUR chance to draw lots of silly pictures!

Telephone Pictionary (also called Eat Poop You Cat, Fax Machines and probably some other things) is a game of silly miscommunication. The results of the most recent game can be found here, and they'll give you a better idea of how things work than any description I can type. Drawing--and drawing under 72 hour deadlines--is required, although talent isn't necessary. (Effort is still appreciated!)

For reference, my main account is Ether, and she can be contacted via AIM at CaffieneDeity, or Skype at unvote. If I die, Amrun and petroleumjelly know the password to this account, so arrangements can be made from there.

Status:

COMPLETE.

Players:

1. ChannelDelibird
2. Bellaphant
3. Cheetory6
4. Plotinus
5. Shanba
6. Kitty Kat
7. DrippingGoofball
8. The Bulge
9. caledfwitch

(replaced StrangerCoug)

10. Save The Dragons
11. Papa Zito

(replaced Fink)

12. xRECKONERx

13. xofelf

14. Natirasha
15. lalaladucks
16. Jopalopa
17. DeathRowKitty
18. Mist7676
19. ForWhomTheJellyRolls
20. N

Chains:

20/20
Almond Blossom
Buttercup
Clover
Daffodil
Etlingera
Foxglove
Geranium
Hyacinth
Iris
Jacaranda
Kingcup
Lily
Marigold
Narcissus
Orchid
Petunia
Quaqua
Rafflesia
Snapdragon
Tulip

[Telephone Cat]

tl;dr: Fast chains get fast reveals. Slow players get replaced. And your chain had better not corrupt any innocent 13-year-olds.

• Game Flow:
  
  
• Everyone signed up should start by PMing me with a sentence. It shouldn't be incredibly long, but it can basically be as silly as you want it to be. Some good examples can be found in these chains, but please don't copy those exactly.
  
• When the game starts, each of these sentences will be sent out to a different player.
  This player will have 72 hours
  to portray that sentence in picture form and send me the result.
  
• Please don't actually take 72 hours every single round. If you're busy sometimes, that's fine, but if you're consistently waiting until the last day...just keep in mind that other people might be waiting on you. This isn't technically against the rules, but I'm asking you nicely here.
  
• Once the picture is drawn, it will be sent to a third person as soon as that person has also sent its picture in. When you get a picture, you have have 48 hours to send in a sentence summarizing it.
  I'll send you pictures to summarize as sentences as I receive them, even if you already have other things to draw/write. Please send in sentences promptly! It shouldn't take too long.
  
• You'll only have one active picture to draw at a time. I might send you sneak peaks of future sentences, but you won't be under any deadline obligations for those until later. (But feel free to complete them early anyway!)
  
• Each chain will continue for 13 of these rounds: 7 sentences and 6 pictures. Chains will be posted on the wiki as they are completed, which will probably vary wildly.
  
• If you cannot meet a deadline, please notify me as soon as you've received the sentence (or picture)--or, better yet, tell me before you receive one. I will find somebody else and send it there. I will also do this automatically if you have not drawn it in 72 hours. In this way, it is possible for one player to have more than one sentence to draw at once.
  
• Somebody who consistently fails to meet deadlines will be kicked out of the game at my discretion. Especially somebody who doesn't announce V/LAs beforehand. So don't do that!

• Picture/sentence standards:
  
  
• Any drawing program--Photoshop, Flash, MS Paint--will do. Drawing pictures by hand and scanning them will also do. Making a diorama with paper cutouts and silly putty and sending a photograph of that will do. The sky is pretty much the limit here. In fact, if you can get your hands on one of those airplanes that draws pictures out of fake clouds, then the sky is literally the limit here.
  
• Having said that, please draw everything from scratch. You can use Google Images as a reference, but don't paste other people's pictures into your own.
  
• Words are completely banned. English letters used to denote words, and codes (camel octopus dinosaur eagle snake), will also be sent back with a stern warning, although if it's relevant you can use them to portray the alphabet. Numbers and symbols and math are all fine.
  
• Please don't intentionally mislead anybody--do the most accurate non-legalistic picture that you can. The chain will find a way to mutate anyway.
  
• Pictures should be 800 pixels wide by 600 pixels tall. Please don't go too far over that; some of us have tiny laptop screens. Photographs are best saved as JPGs; otherwise, if in doubt, you should probably save as a PNG. Do not save as a BMP under any circumstances or I'll have to ask you to reformat it before sending it onward, and nobody wants that.
  
• Please be mindful of where you upload your pictures to. Tinypic deletes its pictures without warning, and anything uploaded to the wiki is accessible by other players. Most people use Imgur these days. Photobucket's also a good bet, if you have that--but make sure that the album that you put your pictures in is private.
  
• When you upload, don't save it under a name that will hint at its origins. This is something else that you'll need to reformat over.
  
• Okay, on to sentences. Keep it to one sentence and don't be too legalistic about what you are summarizing. If you don't think the picture is about the fourth wall, don't break the fourth wall.
  
• Please don't break the site rules. Keep it reasonably safe for work, and preferably not too gross. Please don't make chains about poop, okay?
  
• I am one of those spirit-of-the-game type hippies. If I'm forgetting a rule, I'll let you know. You might be asked to resubmit in light of this.

• Miscellaneous:
  
  
• Please don't talk to other players about the sentences/pictures you got. If somebody tells you anything about a chain you haven't seen yet, please let me know.
  
• I will note in-thread if somebody is behind.
  
• If you haven't sent a link in within 48 hours for a picture or 24 for a sentence, I'll send you a prod. Other actions may be taken if you're inactive for the full round.
  
• Have fun! If you aren't having fun, you should talk to me about it, and I'll do my best to find you a replacement. You can also talk to me when you are having fun, of course.

[Telephone Cat]

By the way:

Also, a tl;dr on the image rules:

-Any medium, online or off, is fine.
-Don't copy/paste anything you found on Google Images (or anything else that you didn't draw)

-This has never come up, but: if you are physically making a collage out of a magazine, that counts as a medium and you can do it, but please only use pictures you can find offline

-No words or abbreviations (numbers, symbols and letters that do not correspond to words and abbreviations are fine)
-Save as .png, .jpg or .gif
-800 pixels wide, 600 pixels tall--please don't go over that. If you're using MS Paint, hit Ctrl+E to change the image size.
-Don't save files with names that would hint at the sentence
-Don't save files in places with public albums--if you're using Photobucket, make the album private

Tips for MS Paint novices:
-Save it as a PNG. JPGs are more for photographs; they might blur things up.
-If you're using the Windows 7 or 8 versions, and the fillbucket leaves white dots all over the edges, try drawing your lines with the pencil tool instead of one of the brushes!
-If you're stuck using one of the later versions of Paint, but are like me and think that Vista's version was way better, contact me and I'll walk you through the downgrade.

[Telephone Cat]

/in

Um...I'm not sure about this one. I have no problem with newbies in general, but it looks like you've signed up for two games and lasted less than a week in each of them. I realize this isn't mafia, but are you sure you'll be okay?

[Telephone Cat]

Okay.

[Telephone Cat]

With only two slots left, I

really

need sentences from Natirasha, lalaladucks, DeathRowKitty and Mist7676! I can't start the game without 20 sentences, and your slot in this game isn't secure until I have yours.

[Telephone Cat]

That's the last slot!

But I still need DRK's sentence (and yours).

[Telephone Cat]

Okay...DRK doesn't seem to be here, but he's only one person and all other sentences are in. I'm just going to send out a sentence on his behalf. Please hold, everybody: the game starts tonight!

[Telephone Cat]

Game on!

Please send me all starting pictures by Wednesday, September 9 at 11:00 pm EDT! (But as always, faster is ideal!)

[Telephone Cat]

Awesome.

I step away for about an hour, and I have five new PMs. Twelve of the Round 2 pictures are already complete!

[Telephone Cat]

With Fink's support, Bellaphant has broken the Round 4 barrier!

[Telephone Cat]

20 pictures drawn! Only four people are still on Round 2.

By the way--if you have a sentence to write, please don't sit on it! Send it back as soon as possible, I'm not judging you if you still have a picture standing.

[Telephone Cat]

48 hours in!

Everyone who hasn't drawn their Round 2 yet has been prodded. But that's only two of you.

[Telephone Cat]

On the backs of Cheetory6 and lalaladucks, Jopalopa broke the Round 6 barrier last night!

lalaladucks and Fink then sent in the second and third Round 6s shortly after.

[Telephone Cat]

Round 2 is COMPLETE.

[Telephone Cat]

On the backs of Cheetory6 and lalaladucks, Jopalopa broke the Round 6 barrier last night!

Natirasha has now broken the Round 8 barrier!

[Telephone Cat]

With support from Bellaphant, Jopalopa, CDB and Plotinus, Fink has broken the Round 10 barrier!

[Telephone Cat]

Kitty Kat has 15 minutes to go. I'm sending her prompt to Marquis, although technically if she gets it in before deadline, her picture will be the one that gets sent on.

On a related note, MARQUIS.

[Telephone Cat]

Kitty Kat's picture is now officially in Marquis's hands.

[Telephone Cat]

Bulge has 20 minutes to go. Anyone want to take his prompt? As always, please only volunteer when you're ready to start drawing--this chain has been held up long enough!

[Telephone Cat]

No, but I've just passed the chain to caledfwitch.

[Telephone Cat]

Don't run out of deadlines when I'm not here please?

You heard the man.

Incidentally, Round 4 is COMPLETE.

[Telephone Cat]

Incidentally incidentally, we're now at 61/120 pictures drawn.

[Telephone Cat]

Reckoner has a little over 5 minutes to get his Geranium prompt in. Anyone want it?

(Those eligible include {Bellaphant, ChannelDelibird, Jopalopa, lalaladucks, StrangerCoug, The Bulge, xofelf} and anyone not in this game.)

EDIT: Antihero takes it. Thanks!

[Telephone Cat]

Daffodil is up!

This wasn't perfectly stable, though it didn't make any huge waves. (Except electromagnetic waves? Are those a thing? I want to say those are a thing.) I did like the true love experienced at the end. I love those dopey expressions in Cheetory's picture; I think that's one of my favorite pictures so far.

[Telephone Cat]

Tulip is up!

This chain started out strong, and then midway through just turned into pretty pictures of innocent butterflies. Fortunately intrigue and dark deeds still carried the day in the end.

[Telephone Cat]

Reckoner is the first player to draw all 6 prompts!

[Telephone Cat]

Technically I should have done this an hour ago, but pokemon happened. Here we go!

WEEK ONE COMPLETE

80/120 pictures drawn
5% of chains are on Round 6.
10% of chains are on Round 7.
20% of chains are on Round 8.
15% of chains are on Round 9.
25% of chains are on Round 10.
5% of chains are on Round 11.
10% of chains are complete.

[Telephone Cat]

Papa Zito replaces Fink!

And with that, Clover is up. It went to delightful places.

[Telephone Cat]

caledfwitch replaces StrangerCoug!

[Telephone Cat]

At long last, Round 6 is COMPLETE.

[Telephone Cat]

Kingcup is up!

DrippingGoofball, Mr. Spock...don't worry, I get those two confused all the time too.

[Telephone Cat]

Marigold is up!

This is

exactly

what is wrong with gingers. Sorry, Cheetory.

I like the fancy spaceship backgrounds in CDB's and Kitty Kat's pictures, N's boy scout, and caled's sentence. And of course DGB's volcano is glorious.

[Telephone Cat]

I've already been doing it for this game, but I think I'm going to keep using this in future games too:

If you miss a deadline, future deadlines shrink by 24 hours. I might restore the full time after a few rounds, if I don't have to prod you under those conditions. (But please just try to not miss deadlines! That's the best approach.)

(EDIT: I'm not implementing this a second time in this case, you're still at 48 hours, but argh.

Please

don't take 48 hours.)

[Telephone Cat]

Jacaranda is up!

[Telephone Cat]

Foxglove is up!

HOW THE PINEAPPLE TABLES HAVE TURNED.

[Telephone Cat]

Hi! Xofelf is really busy right now, and this close to the endgame I only need two pictures to clear her slate. Would you like one?

For Lily, those eligible include {caledfwitch, ForWhomTheJellyRolls, Jopalopa, lalaladucks, Natirasha, Papa Zito, Save The Dragons, The Bulge}.
For Petunia, {caledfwitch, ChannelDelibird, DrippingGoofball, Mist7676, Papa Zito, Plotinus, Save The Dragons, Shanba} can draw.

Anyone outside the game is also eligible, of course. As always, please don't volunteer until you're actually ready to draw!

EDIT: Natirasha takes Lily, and Marquis takes Petunia!

[Telephone Cat]

You were too late!

Round 8 is COMPLETE.

[Telephone Cat]

Plotinus snipes caledfwitch's finale, and Rafflesia is up!

THE REPUBLICANS WERE RIGHT.

[Telephone Cat]

Caledfwitch has missed her Narcissus deadline, so her picture goes to Hanasawa.

[Telephone Cat]

Geranium is up!

It's cats. Cats lurk at the bottom of the ocean.

Plotinus's ballerina crabs are pretty great.

[Telephone Cat]

Fixed!

[Telephone Cat]

Almond Blossom

(technically a flower!)

is up!

[Telephone Cat]

Snapdragon is up!

It was borderline, but DGB's flower was

lovely

. Fink's Russian dancer is pretty great, too.

[Telephone Cat]

Round 10 is COMPLETE.

[Telephone Cat]

Etlingera is up!

[Telephone Cat]

With both finale sentences sent to me in the same minute, Orchid and Petunia are up!

That queen. x_x

[Telephone Cat]

WEEK TWO COMPLETE

116/120 pictures drawn
5% of chains are on Round 11.
15% of chains are on Round 12.
10% of chains are on Round 13.
70% of chains are complete.

[Telephone Cat]

Iris is up!

[Telephone Cat]

Quaqua is up!

This is EXACTLY what happens when you skip math.

[Telephone Cat]

Buttercup is up!

Bananas are forever.

[Telephone Cat]

Narcissus is up!

The boy's face in Reckoner's picture is my favorite thing. A lot of the sentences here were pretty great.

[Telephone Cat]

Round 12 is COMPLETE, meaning all pictures have now been drawn!

Still two chains to be revealed, though.

[Telephone Cat]

Correction: one chain to be revealed. Hyacinth is up!

[Telephone Cat]

Lily is up, and Telephone Pictionary: A Rose by Any Other Chain is COMPLETE.